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Global Standards Collaboration
(GSC-3) Meeting
Kyongju, Korea, 2-3 September 1996
* Source: GSC-3 EDH Rapporteur, Mr. Hendrickx
* Date: 3 September 1996
* Title: Minutes of GSC-EDH Meeting No.
10 - Held in Kyongju, Korea, 2-3 September
1996
Present:
* Mr. Henri Hendrickx, ETSI, Chairman
of GSC-EDH
* Mr. Hyoung-Jun Kim, TTA, Secretary
* Mr. Harold Daugherty, Committee T1
* Mr. Les Davey, ATSC
* Mr. Ray Hapeman, Committee T1
* Mr. Akio Ihara, TTC
* Mr. Ki-Beom Lee, TTA
* Mr. Bob Lions, ATSC
* Mr. Bill McCrum, TSACC
* Mr. Os Monkewich, TSACC
* Mr. Ki-Shik Park, TTA
* Mr. Henry J.F. Ryan, ISO/IEC JTC1
* Mr. Satoru Toknaga, TTC |
1. Opening
Mr. Henri Hendrickx welcomed everyone to Kyungju,
Korea and invited Mr. Hyoung- Jun Kim, TTA,
to say a few words. Mr. Kim on behalf of TTA
(Telecommunications Technology Association
of Korea) welcomed the delegates to Korea.
Mr. Hendrickx particularly welcomed Mr. Henry
J.F. Ryan from the ISO/IEC JTC1. He then asked
everyone to present themselves.
2. Adoption of Draft Agenda
Mr. Hendrickx indicated that the Agenda had
been distributed to members with the announcement
of the GSC-3 meeting. The Agenda was approved
with no modifications (See Annex 1) [GSC-EDH
#10/1]
3. Approval of the GSC-EDH # 9 Minutes
[GSC-EDH 9/10]
The Rapporteur for the GSC-EDH Meeting No.
9 was Mr. Jean-Yves Fortin from TSACC. The
Minutes were adopted as presented.
4. Participation Review
Mr. Hendrickx asked member organizations to
identify the GSC-EDH contact member. Following
is the revised list of contact members:
ATSC Mr. L. Davey
ETSI Mr. H. Hendrickx
ITU- R Mr. L. Goelzer
ITU-TSB Ms. Fameliadou
T1 Committee Mr. H. Daugherty
TSACC Mr. G. Williams
ITU-TSAG Mr. R. Smith
TTC Mr. A. Ihara
TTA Mr. H. J. Kim |
5. Progress Report on EDH-related Activities
since GSC-2
Mr. Hendrickx identified the various contributions
received as well as those handed in at the
meeting and assigned a number. See the GSC-EDH
Document Register [Annex 2].
Mr. Hendrickx invited each delegate to present
a report of their activities since the last
GSC-EDH meeting.
Committee T1 - Telecommunication,
USA [GSC-EDH #10/6, GSC-3/96-5]
Mr. Harold Daugherty reported that Committee
T1 utilizes T1BBS (T1 Bulletin Board System)
to facilitate their standards development
process. He noted that the name does not truly
denote the system capabilities i.e., it is
much more than a bulletin board system. The
system is managed by an EDH Standing Committee
whose key members included Technical Sub-Committee
Information Directors. There is an EDH Oversight
Committee that approves funding for T1BBS
and oversees the enhancements/on-going maintenance
of T1BBS and other electronic processes. The
two main improvements since the last GSC include
standardization on document format (Adobe
Acrobat Reader) and enhancements to the World
Wide Web Site. Mr. Daugherty indicated that
the usage of T1BBS has increased from just
above 2000 access per week to about 7000 access
per week 1995 over 1996 - 350% increase. Last
week the Committee T1 Advisory Group approved
electronic distribution of Draft Standards
which will soon be followed by complete electronic
balloting. Mr. Daugherty concluded by noting
that Committee T1 is utilizing T1BBS to both
improve the standards development process
as well as a means to reduce costs.
TTA - Telecommunications
Technology Association, Korea [GSC-EDH #10/3,
GSC- 3/96-41]
Mr. Hyoung-Jun KIM from TTA presented the
contribution regarding the up-to-date progress
of TTA/EDH since last GSC-2 meeting and the
new Web Home Page which supports access to
the Korean domestic standards, TTA standards
approved and general meeting report within
TTA. Since the 2nd GSC meeting, TTA/EDH Committee
has held 4 meetings and 1 internal workshop
which focused on extending the TTA database
and on discussing the interworking between
the TTA EDH system and other domestic IT&T
organizations. And TTA had announced its TTA
Web Home Page (www.tta.or.kr) in August, 1996
and the English version of the system is now
under construction. Lastly, Mr.Kim mentioned
the future policy of EDH in TTA such as common
interchange format of standard documents and
charging policy. Especially, TTA is considering
allowing access to the TTA EDH system free
of charge because of the wider electronic
use of domestic standards in Korea.
TTC - Telecommunication
Technology Committee, Japan [GSC-EDH #10/4,
GSC- 3/96-9]
Mr. Akio Ihara was happy to report that in
April 1996 TTC established a homepage and
an English version was opened July 1996. Included
on the homepage are the TTC Meeting Calendar,
Medium-term Standardization Projects, TTC
Documents' List, and TTC English Documents
Order Form.
ASTC - Australian
Telecommunication Standardization Committee
Mr. Davey advised that he was now the ATSC
contact replacing Mr. John Haydon who is now
doing other duties at AUSTEL. Plans to establish
an ATSC WWW site in the 1995/96 Financial
Year were not realized. It is now expected
that an ATSC WWW site will be established
in 1996/97 FY. In the interim the AUSTEL WWW
site (www.austel.gov.au) provides some information
on ATSC activities. Mr. Davey agreed to advise
participants when the ATSC WWW site is established.
The existing ATSC dial-up BBS continues to
operate.
TSACC - Telecommunications
Standards Advisory Council of Canada [GSC-EDH
#10/7, GSC-3/96-21]
Mr. Bill McCrum reported that the TSACC Web
site is found at WWW.tsacc.ic.gc.ca. It supports
TSACC members information requirements and
committee work, and points to other relevant
web sites, e.g., PSO members. A number of
useful services are now available including
a document annotation service, secure areas
for draft documents, and mail reflector services.
Future plans include the addition of interactive
uploading, teleconference facilities, video
broadcast of TSACC plenary sessions, and multimedia
sessions for Working Groups. The TSACC web
site received two 1996 Canadian Internet Society
Awards.
ETSI - European Telecommunications
Standards Institute [GSC-EDH #10/2, GSC-3/96-
33]
Mr. Hendrickx reported that since the last
GSC meeting a number of enhancements have
been made to their information management
system. This includes faster connection to
the internet (i.e., 512 kbs instead of 64
kbs), a database to register and follow-up
user requests, migration to Windows 95, Windows
NT on servers, moving e-mail to Microsoft
Exchange, addition of Video-Conferencing facilities,
utilization of Adobe Acrobat Reader, and prototype
Web server implemented to link all GSC PSOs.
ISO/IEC JTC 1 Status
Mr. Ryan provided a brief history and outline
summary of the current JTC 1 adoption of information
technology.
JTC 1 resolved to eliminate hardcopy distribution
in 1994. Since then JTC 1 and each of its
SC and SG Secretariats have moved very successfully
to electronic mail and diskette for larger
documents. A hardcopy option is available
to JTC 1 member bodies on request. The natural
decision to eliminate disk distribution and
to move to a full on-line web document pull
service was made by JTC 1 at its March 1996
meeting. In the interim two years the rich
experience gained has been reflected in the
latest revision (version 3.0) of the JTC 1
Guidelines for Electronic Documentation.
The first SC to implement this full on-line
service (hardcopy and disk still available
on request) is JTC1/SC29. This lead is a precursor
to the more widespread adoption and roll-out
within JTC 1.
The JTC 1/ Ad Hoc on GII SWG-GII adopted full
electronic document distribution using simple
mail reflector software from its foundation
in June 1995. The successor JTC1/SWG-GII has
also adopted a similar full electronic on-line
document management system.
In addition to electronic document management
SWG-GII and some other ad-hoc groups have
progressed their work plans through regular
scheduled audioteleconferences.
SWG-GII also has a web based forum discussion
and document repository facility. This is
available and its adoption by the SWG is planned
and scheduled following some hands on experience
at the next SWG-GII meeting, Sept 25-27 1996.
A pilot implementation of a JTC 1 web facility
involving select SCs and supported directly
by ISO/CS is already underway. The full implementation
of the JTC 1 web page and pointers to its
subsidiary bodies and other organizations
in liaison., is one of the items to be resolved
at the JTC 1 Ad Hoc on Implementing Information
Technology which meets in London during the
week commencing 30 September 1996.
6. GSC Information Server
Mr. Hendrickx presented a proposal for a GSC
Information Server that would contain information
on GSC PSOs. Primarily the information would
be provided via links to GSC participants
homepages (i.e., ATSC, TTC, TTA, T1, TSACC,
ETSI, and ITU). ETSI has established a homepage
with the following table of contents:
Participants
List of high interest areas and rapporteurs
Work Programme
GSC meeting reports
Calendars of meetings
Contributions
GSC-EDH |
Very little information would actually be
maintained on the ETSI GSC homepage but would
be provided via links. For example, to access
the GSC-2 Meeting report you would link to
the TSACC homepage which contains all the
relevant information. The same holds true
for calendars of meetings - Mr. Hendrickx
provided an example of Committee T1's calendar
which would be displayed via access to T1's
homepage.
The consensus of the group was to proceed
with the plan as outlined by Mr. Hendrickx.
Mr. Hendrickx then canvassed the group on
their willingness to share their work programme.
Each PSO representative agreed to provide
this the relevant URLs to Mr. Hendrickx as
soon as it was available.
7. Common Interchange Format
Mr. Hendrickx opened the floor for discussion
of Common Interchange Format. Mr. Daugherty
proposed that Adobe Acrobat Reader utilizing
the Portable Document Format (PDF) was being
used by nearly all of the participants and
that for now the GSC-EDH group utilize this
format. The group agreed with Mr. Daugherty's
assessment and recommendation.
8. Common Mechanism for Contribution Submissions
for Future Meetings
Mr. Hendrickx asked the group if we should
develop a common mechanism for submitting
contributions at future GSC meetings. Mr.
Daugherty proposed that contributions are
today submitted electronically, as was done
with TTA for GSC-3, and it would be helpful
if this information were available to all
participants. Mr. Daugherty added that following
this meeting he would take the EDH contributions
and forward to Committee T1 EDH Working Group
for their use. He added that it would be helpful
if he could do this electronically. Mr. Hendrickx
indicated he would look into storing the EDH
contributions on the ETSI Server. Mr. Daugherty
indicated that if Mr. Hendrickx ran into any
difficulty doing this that Committee T1 would
offer its server for GSC contributions.
Mr. Hendrickx thanked him for his offer but
did not think he would have a problem implementing
this solution.
9. Any Other Business
Mr. Hendrickx asked if any member of the group
had closing thoughts or comments.
Mr. Akio Ihara thanked Mr. Hendrickx as well
as others in the group for his efforts in
establishing the GSC homepage.
Mr. Daugherty noted that a number of the standards
bodies around the table were moving towards
electronic balloting. A number of issues have
been pointed out such as system resources
needed to download documents, voter authentication,
and duplication of ballots. Mr. Daugherty
suggested that the next steps for this group
may be to share information on the various
implementations of electronic balloting.
The group agreed with Mr. Daugherty's suggestion.
ACTION ITEM:
"PSO's are encouraged to share information,
via the GSC server, on concerns, progress,
experiences, and results of using EDH for
balloting including security aspects, document
distribution, and any other new electronic
services used to support their standards activities"
10. Report Generation for GSC Plenary
Meeting
Mr. Henri Hendrickx proposed that the slides
he used to present the GSC Information Server
could serve as his presentation to the GSC.
The group agreed with his proposal.
RESOLUTION (Proposed for adoption by GSC):
"The GSC resolves that PSO members make
every effort to use the GSC server provided
by ETSI to support the GSC information sharing
objectives."
The following is proposed for the EDH section
of the GSC-3 Communique:
The GSC EDH has established a GSC server provided
by ETSI to support the GSC information requirements.
The GSC server will link all GSC participants
homepages and provide an information resource
to access previous and upcoming GSC Meetings.
The EDH Group will utilize the system to share
experiences and results of using EDH for balloting,
document distribution, and any other new electronic
services used to support their standards activities.
The GSC server should also be used to keep
the minimum basic GSC-related information
such as:
* List and coordinates of participating
organizations (PSOs)
* List of GSC High Interest Areas and
Rapporteurs
* GSC Minutes (Either by pointing to
the existing ones or by scanning the
previous reports)
* If desired, to hold RAST-related information
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Further GSC-EDH actions are to:
* Implement the GSC Server in operational
phase
* Allow better exchange of information
on the work programme of the PSOs (subject
to their relevant information sharing
policies)
* Work on a unified contribution submission
mechanism for subsequent GSC Meetings
* Identify areas where GSC-EDH collaboration
could facilitate harmonized developments
leading to more efficient and cost effective
use of Information Technology and Telecommunications
Facilities (e.g., Electronic Balloting)
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11. Closing of the Meeting
The Chairman thanked members for their active
participation and their contributions. He
thanked Mr. Kim for acting as Secretary and
TTA for the excellent facilities offered for
the GSC-EDH meeting and the web access used
for the various demonstrations. The GSC-EDH
meeting no. 10 was closed at 12:00, 3 September,
1996.
Annex 1
3rd Global Standards Collaboration
Meeting (GSC-3)
Korea - Kyungju, 2-6 September 1996
Agenda
GSC-3-EDH Meeting #10
2-3 September 1996 - 09:00 |
1. Opening
2. Approval of the Draft Agenda
3. Approval of the GSC-EDH #9
minutes
4. Participation review
5. Progress report on EDH-related
activities since GSC-2
6. GSC Information Server
6.1. Contents
* List of high interest
areas + rapporteurs
* Work Programme
* GSC meetings report
* Calendars of meetings
* Contributions 6.2. Access
and Information policy
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6.3. Demonstration |
7. Common interchange format
8. Common mechanism for contribution
submissions for future meetings
9. Any Other Business
10. Report generation for GSC
plenary meeting
11. Closing of the meeting |
Annex 2
3rd Global Standards Collaboration
Meeting (GSC-3)
Korea - Kyungju, 2-6 September 1996
Document Register
GSC-3-EDH Meeting #10
2 -3 September 1996 - 09:00 |
GSC-EDH #10/1 GSC-3-EDH
Meeting #10 Agenda
GSC-EDH #10/2 Report on EDH-related
ETSI activities
GSC-EDH #10/3 Report on TTA Activities
GSC-EDH #10/4 TTC Home Page
GSC-EDH #10/5 Liaison Rapporteurs in
High Interest Areas of GSC (ETSI Contribution)
GSC-EDH #10/6 Electronic Data Handling
(EDH) - Status Report (Committee T1
Contribution)
GSC-EDH #10/7 TSACC
GSC-EDH #10/8 Minutes of GSC-EDH Meeting
No. 10 - Held in Kyungju, Korea, 2-3
September 1996 |
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